wait, for real? 13 Pelican players are untouchable? lmao

1. Be rich and famous
   
2. Join Gayle Benson’s church
   
3. Become Gayle’s bestie

Literally anything? Their roster makes no sense. Zion and Queen can’t play together. Dejounte, Trey Murphy and Herb Jones are on a different timeline than Queen, Fears and Missi. And they’ve won 47 games over the last two years.

The problem is he’s not a sharpshooter.

He’d be a lot more valuable if he was actually a 40%~ from 3 guy on high volume like he was at UConn. Instead he’s a career 34% from 3.

Nobody cares about a guy who’s one skill is below average shooting.

Maybe a solid role player in china. He is too small and weak with little lateral quickness to guard any position. He can’t dribble or pass or rebound. He is a sharpshooter who can’t hit a shot. He’s not an nba player.

That is not a top 15 group at all

A team that just made it out of the first round and won a championship this decade is the designated bad team in the west? You don’t know ball.

He can’t shoot. That’s his whole thing. Even though we’re not a good team and not a well run org, it shouldn’t matter if you can just shoot the damn ball, which Hawkins isn’t good at. He’s just not a real NBA player.

For the credit I give to Trajan Langdon and David Griffin for drafting, they do have some major whiffs like Kira Lewis and Hawkins. They just aren’t good enough to play in the league.

Yeah using assets to get ‘financial flexibility’ is extremely dumb. Just eat the least year of his contract there’s nothing theyll use the cap space for anyways

Obviously, they are not going to give up 1sts to dump \(7M. Rockets used three 2nds to salary dump \)14.1M of DFS. Hawkins might cost two bad second rounders, do you really need to save them? They can probably attach one 2nd and get Hendricks back who Memphis does not need and who has some potential, and will get chances on the Pelicans.

Couple of thoughts about that. I think you gotta remember the new FO only picked two of these guys in Fears and Queen, so I think both guys are locked in to the Pels for a while. Dumars and Weaver love those two and I like them and their potential to be happy with that.

Murphy is getting moved, too valuable of a piece. Multiple contenders want him and if an injury happens around the league his value will only go up. I’m not saying it’s happening before the season. But the only way he’s on the team in NOLA post deadline is if we overperform record wise. Herb is interesting to me because I think his value has slid a little. His defense is still very good, but not as elite, and his offense hasn’t improved. He’s routinely left open at 3 and doesn’t make enough of them make defenses honest. He’s like Josh Hart, if Josh Hart wasn’t as good of a passer or rebounder. So I don’t think Herb is part of the core of the team. But, the fans LOVE him and there is value there for a team like New Orleans. Missi I have some hope can take a bit of a jump, but if it doesn’t happen this year we’re gonna need to go big man fishing and Missi might be moved as a part of that.

I think Queen and Fears are the only sure thing on being on this roster at the start of the 27-28 season. I think everyone else is available for the right price. I also think we aren’t ready to sell on Zion just yet. When he plays he’s REALLY good. If Mosley can push him defensively a bit, and if he adds the willingness to just shoot the wide open jumpers defenses give him, look out, he could have a big year.

I think there’s a world where the team overperforms this season and sneaks into the play in. I really do. But that could be me trying my darndest to be optimistic about the upcoming season. If the year starts poorly, I think the FO will start moving guys for assets. So Murray, Murphy, Herb, maybe Missi, and even Zion could be unloaded.

I’m high on Fears. I think he can develop into a really good player. Queen, I like, I enjoy his kind of slow awkward game. But I don’t think Queen is going to develop into some superstar player or anything like that.

Ja’Kobe Walter at 19 😎

Nah, I don’t agree with that. After the lottery pick, there were so many interesting ones like Kel’el Ware, Jared McCain, Tristan da Silva, Ja’Kobe Walter, Jaylon Tyson, Kyshawn George, Ryan Dunn, Baylor Scheierman, Kyle Filipowski, Tyler Kolek, Johnny Furphy, Ajay Mitchell, Jamal Shead, and Quinten Post.

EDIT: Shit I didn’t see your reply to shanglang69 (nice.)

Oops lol.

Ah a Caris LeVert